I'm Sean Rubin. I direct and cut every frame that leaves this studio, and there is nobody else here.
I trained at UNCSA, then went through the Kanbar Institute at NYU Tisch and graduated in 2024. Around that I have spent about ten years working in film and television, which is a strange sentence to write at my age, but it is the true one. I started early and never really stopped.
I started Rubin5 to make one thing well. A sizzle built to make a funder feel a project before a frame of it is real. Everything else I have made, the fight campaigns, the political work, the launch films, was practice for the same problem: a room full of people who have to decide on something that does not exist yet.
There is no team to introduce and no account manager between us. If you hire this studio, you get me, from the first call to the final file.
The whole list, as plainly as I can put it.
Rubin5 is named in honor of the 5 Star Ranch, a place of magic and family I visited every Thanksgiving growing up. Though the ranch was sold last year, its spirit endures as a symbol of legacy, creativity, and belonging. Rubin5 is a tribute to my grandfather, whose vision and strength continue to inspire the studio's work and values.